Dr. Elizabeth Campbell is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. She teaches in the Master of Teaching pre-service teacher education program (CTL7001: Educational Professionalism, Ethics and the Law) and in the Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development graduate program (CTL1812: Professional Ethics in Teaching and Schooling). She is a former Editor of the internationally refereed journal Curriculum Inquiry.

Dr. Campbell’s scholarship and research focus on the areas of professional ethics in education and the moral and ethical dimensions of teaching. Her book, The Ethical Teacher, was published by the Open University Press, McGraw-Hill, U. K. in 2003, and was translated into Chinese in 2010. Her current research project, entitled “The Ethical Curriculum,” and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), is investigating the ethical dimensions of curriculum and its interpretation and implementation by secondary school Arts, English, History, and Science teachers in Ontario. Using interview and observation methods, the study seeks to explore the things that teachers do to respond to a formal curriculum that increasingly identifies objectives of a values-laden orientation. The purpose of this study is to probe teachers’ interpretations of not only the principles embedded in the curriculum, but also more significantly their own classroom practices, their orientations to enacting the curriculum, and their intended influence on students.